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Examples
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If the racism meme is out there as a tactic in bareknuckle politics, but it’s not widely believed by the perpetrators of the meme that that is the main driver, that’s one thing.
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Whilst he was fingering that out, she give him a reasonably hard shot to the loins and then laid into him with fisticuffs—which had she been born a man and eligible to compete, she'd've taken the county bareknuckle prize in a walk any year she pleased.
Screaming Woman - Excerpt Jason W. Stuart 2011
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She has entered the bareknuckle world of Hollywood film-making, and is more than equipped to deal with it.
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Mr. Gray's bareknuckle take on tribal Bay Ridge would hardly have flown in the '40s.
Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' John Anderson 2011
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"At least wars are about something!" says one bemused onlooker in the course of this shrewd documentary about the bareknuckle boxing scene in the Traveller community in Ireland and England – a dogfight cult for human beings, fuelled by feuds.
Knuckle – review 2011
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The other man struck out at Mike with his fist as though he were bareknuckle boxing, and Sara was glad to see Mike duck and dodge the blow.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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The other man struck out at Mike with his fist as though he were bareknuckle boxing, and Sara was glad to see Mike duck and dodge the blow.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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I hope this movie has him getting in a bareknuckle fistfight with some sort of animal.
Leonardo DiCaprio Cast as Nolan Bushnell in Atari « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The Frenchman Nicolas Mahut and the American John Isner will fight to the finish in a first-round match at genteel Wimbledon, because that is what is in their DNA, no different to the bareknuckle pugilists of Georgian myth, no different, either, to something that resides deep in all of us.
Nicolas Mahut and John Isner at Wimbledon: two bareknuckle pugilists Kevin Mitchell at Wimbledon 2010
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The other man struck out at Mike with his fist as though he were bareknuckle boxing, and Sara was glad to see Mike duck and dodge the blow.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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